How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." ...

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...